Mixing the edit

We're really close to finishing this edit, but we still need to finish the start.…In order to do that, I do want to mix it a little bit, because the mixing will…help sell what I'm trying to accomplish.…So we're going to open the Volume graph on the Edit 1 track.…You can do this by pressing the minus key on the keyboard, and you'll see that a…black line is now visible over the entire track.…Let's make a selection over our edit and move the cursor above the black line,…and you'll see that a little bracket tool appears.…What this means is that you can click and drag and you'll now be moving and…changing the entire Volume graph for that selection.…

So let's drop our Volume graph down, maybe around -6.2 decibels, somewhere in…there. And let's listen to how that's sounds against our production track.…(clip playing)…It's actually still a little bit loud,…so let's grab it again and drop it a little bit more and listen again.…(clip playing)…That's a little better.…

It may be a little loud over the beginning where the dialog is and a little…

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10/27/2011

Let music editor and producer Skye Lewin show you a selection of audio editing techniques for cutting music to picture in this course on Pro Tools. He covers the basics of timecode, syncing a QuickTime movie with the Pro Tools timeline, alignment of music to picture, editing music, and editorial techniques that may require editing rights. The course also covers creating alternative edits, conforming edits, and exporting QuickTime movies for presentation.

Topics include:

Importing audio and video files

Creating and using sync points

Using snap editing commands

Customizing crossfades

Editing to acquire multiple sync points within the same cue

Creating a 30-second condensed edit

Exploring alternate edits and alternate songs

Mixing and bouncing down the edit

Compressing QuickTime movies

Conforming an edit if the length of a shot changes or if a scene has shifted